Did his wife ever get tuned into a pillar of Esalt?
As far as bad names, I've seen a lot of them. There was the drugheaded friend that named his PCs "Cannabix" and "Ganja". There was the fellow that named his character "Goe" (pronounced "Joe", so that he could be "just plain Goe"). The dwarf named "Mustard" (apparently patterned after a dwarf named "Pikel" or something like that in a D&D novel). The barbarian who was named "Phlebitis". I always spelled that one "Flea-bite-us". When the player protested I pointed out that his character was illiterate.
Then there was the guy who named his Call of Cthulhu PCs after food poisoning. "Sal Monella" the Italian detective was funny, but "Tow Mein" the Chinese academic was a bit too much of a good thing. That same guy named a D&D character "Scrotch". When this character was being introduced, several of us couldn't restrain ourselves from making obvious puns. Turns out he as going for "Scratch" an old nickname for the Devil, and was trying to give it a British pronunciation (he isn't British, nor did that character adopt a British accent). All we knew was that he had named a previous character "Goop" so we just thought he was lazy at names.
